Jan-Ola Östman & Brita Wårvik, 2018. The Fight at Finnsburh: Pragmatic aspects of a narrative fragment. In Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism 189: The Finnsburg Narrative (118–130), ed. by Lawrence J. Trudeau. Farmington Hills, Mich etc.: Gale Cengage Learning, in association with Layman Poupard Publishing. [This is a slightly reworked version of an article that was first published in 1994 in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (95(2): 207–227).]

Martin Eve, Jan-Ola Östman, Maarten Prak & Gunnar Sivertsen, 2017. Report of the International Expert Panel. Evaluation of the Flemish Academic Bibliographic Database for the Social Sciences and Humanities (VABB-SHW). Internal report presented to the Flemish Department of Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI) in December 2017.

Jan-Ola Östman, 2015. Language use in academia in the Nordic countries - with special reference to Finland. In Language use in university teaching and research (85-98), ed. by Gerhard Stickel & Cecilia Robustelli. Frankfurt Am Main: Peter Lang Edition. [Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture 109]

Language Policy of the University of Helsinki. From Guidelines to Practice: Towards functional multilingualism. University of Helsinki, 2014; accepted by the Rector September 25, 2014. [Language policy jointly worked out in a working group with Jan-Ola Östman as Chair, and Päivi Pakkanen as Secretary. Other members: Esko Koponen, Juhana Aunesluoma, Elin Andersson, Lari Kotilainen, Tiina Kosunen, Anne Palo-Kauppi, Leo Pyymäki, Pasi Sihvonen, Ulla-Kristiina Tuomi, Martina Harms-Aalto.]

Jan-Ola Östman, 2014. Collaborate and Explore. The NOS-HS White Paper on how to enhance the quality of research within the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Nordic countries. 25+20 pp. [Unpublished internal document ordered by the The Joint Committe for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS); presented to the committee on May 26, 2014.]

2011

Jan-Ola Östman, 2011. Language contact in the North of Europe. In The languages and linguistics of Europe. A comprehensive guide (359-380), ed. by Bernd Kortmann & Johan van der Auwera [The World of Linguistics 1]. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Jan-Ola Östman, 1993. Ideology and ambivalence. [Introduction to and editor of the section on "News reporting, world crises, and ideology"] In SKY 1993 (209-215), ed. by Susanna Shore and Maria Vilkuna. Helsinki: Linguistic Association of Finland.

1991

Jan-Ola Östman, 1991. On the language-internal interaction of prosody and pragmatic particles. In Levels of linguistic adaptation [Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 6:2] (203-221), ed. by Jef Verschueren. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Jan-Ola Östman, 1989. English love: Temporary or permanent? Journal of Pragmatics 13:6, 1019-1022. [Revised version of Jan-Ola Östman (1988), English love: Temporary or permanent? A note on intuition and linguistic argumentation.] [Available from Academia.edu]

1987

Jan-Ola Östman, [1987] 1986. Pragmatics as Implicitness. An analysis of question particles in Solf Swedish, with implications for the study of passive clauses and the language of persuasion [Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1986]. Not published, but available from University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI (no. 86 24885). 2 + x + 348 pp.

Jan-Ola Östman, 1987. Pragmatic aspects of persuasion: Coherence. In CDEF 86. Papers from the Conference of Departments of English in Finland [Publications of the Department of English, University of Oulu, 7] (93-109), ed. by Heikki Nyyssönen, Riitta Kataja & Vesa Komulainen. University of Oulu.

Marja Leinonen & Jan-Ola Östman, 1983. Passive patterns in Russian and Swedish. In Papers from the seventh Scandinavian conference of linguistics I (175-198), ed. by Fred Karlsson. University of Helsinki: Department of General Linguistics [Publications, no. 9].